Posted on 05/31/2023 8:01:26 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
NEW YORK — If rising oceans aren't worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, asphalt and humanity itself.
New research estimates the city's landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, something referred to as "subsidence."
That natural process happens everywhere as ground is compressed, but the study published recently in the journal Earth's Future sought to estimate how the massive weight of the city itself is hurrying things along.
More than 1 million buildings are spread across the city's five boroughs. The research team calculated that all those structures add up to about 1.7 trillion tons of concrete, metal and glass — about the mass of 4,700 Empire State buildings — pressing down on the Earth.
The rate of compression varies throughout the city. Midtown Manhattan's skyscrapers are largely built on rock, which compresses very little, while some parts of Brooklyn, Queens and downtown Manhattan are on looser soil and sinking faster, the study revealed.
While the process is slow, lead researcher Tom Parsons of the U.S. Geological Survey said parts of the city will eventually be under water.
"It's inevitable. The ground is going down, and the water's coming up. At some point, those two levels will meet," said Parsons, whose job is to forecast hazardous events from earthquakes and tsunamis to incremental shifts of the ground below us.
But no need to invest in life preservers just yet, Parsons assured.
(Excerpt) Read more at channel3000.com ...
It will take hundreds of years — precisely when is unclear — before New York becomes America's version of Venice, which is famously sinking into the Adriatic Sea.
*SNIP*
New York City isn't the only place sinking. San Francisco also is putting considerable pressure on the ground and the region's active earthquake faults. In Indonesia, the government is preparing for a possible retreat from Jakarta, which is sinking into the Java Sea, for a new capital being built on the higher ground of a different island.
Maybe we can start a movement where thousands of conservatives jump up and down in unison in NYC to help it sink a tiny bit faster?
That would be a miracle....getting conservatives into NYC and all.
But Gord Downey (RIP) told me that New Orleans is sinking.
> New research estimates the city’s landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, something referred to as “subsidence.” <
What’s the +/- on this sinking claim? In other words, what’s the estimate of uncertainty? Such a value should be part of any scientific measurement. And it can be calculated. But we never see it when it comes to climate change.
Perhaps the estimate of uncertainty is on the order of the measurement itself. That would make the measurement worthless, of no value.
Not that anyone cares. Full speed ahead on spending billions of dollars to solve an unproven problem.
I meant to say Gord Downie.
And I don’t wanna swim.
lol So maybe Climate change and the rising seas...just ain't so...
whoops...have to recalc...
“1 millimeter = 4 inches”
1 millipeter=0.0393701 inches
Millimeter
1 mm = 0.0394 inches x 100 years = 3.94 inches....Do you think we should worry? And how do you say the sea rise due to climate change is a separate function?
Women and minorities hardest hit
yeh...i corrected it...my bad...
I thought Al Gore gave it ‘how many years’ in his little, fake movie. I thought it was supposed to be under water years ago.
Poor Obama. What’s he gonna do? What’s he gonna do when the rising oceans come for him?
1 inch every 20 years.....
[[ If rising oceans aren’t worry enough]]
OH but they are enough! More than enough!
I sit in my house day after day skart to death, afraid to wonder outside for fear of drowning. I wear a snorkel mask 24/7, and life preserver, AND Ive been vacci ated agai st the water virus, knowing that any minute a tidal wave could swallow us all alive
/s
"As the rising oceans threaten NYC...The city is sinking".
Sounds like one of those is the glass half empty or half full kinda things. It'll probably meet somewhere in the middle. Hopefully it won't flip over a la Hank Johnson.
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